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QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 5, 2011 -> 06:08 PM) Getz saved a run there. But that's what we need out of Quentin. K. Walker bringing good luck to the Sox. He'll be heading to Great Falls on Friday morning out of Salt Lake City. Escobar did.

Nice to finally see some hits strung together. One more by Aj would be nice.

All right Carlos !

PK you da man !

Double steal time ?

Nice bunt Morel .

The KC station is showing a lot of picturesque shots of Chicago . One shot was of the beach where a young man threw a football to a young woman. As she catches it against her chest she yells out OWW my boob !! ". Cracked me up .

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 5, 2011 -> 05:34 PM) Hosmer seeming to take exception to Peavy's politicking for the 3rd strike with the home plate umpire. Vizquel should have taken the out at 3rd and it would be 2 outs, 1st and 2nd. Oh, well. You need to score at least one run anyway. Doubt it will end up 1-0 with the wind blowing out and 85 degrees. I thought so too about going to 3rd since he was headed in that direction. Yay PK HR !

We need Q very badly on this team . Maybe KW gets creative and we end up with a few pieces for next year without hurting the club for this year and dump some salary and in the process bring up Tank and lose Pierre. I know how impossible that all sounds . I just know I want Q to stay and Viciedo up . If any pitcher goes its Jackson. It would suck to see Q go to make room for Vicedo while Pierre stays.

If anyone goes its him. Salary has to be cut. But if he doesn't go it's because KW won't be able to get anywhere near what he gave up for him. He can always say we were in the middle of the pennant race and couldn't afford to give up pitching. So Kenny's got his bases covered, so to speak , no matter what.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Jul 3, 2011 -> 09:51 PM) Well, De Aza with 2HR tonight, Viciedo 0-4, BB, K. Doing his best Adam Dunn impression. If he was impersonating Dunn he would have K'ed 3 times.

Mark Kotsay is batting .600 against lefties.

Ok this got to the 2nd page so I had to bump it. 2 runs in 2 games at Wrigley. 3 gwrbi by one of our worst hitters. Dunn sucking more and more every day. Games against division opponents coming up. Too many cold hitters and it's possible PK is hurting. Call up Viciedo now now NOW !!

Magic 8 ball says 8.

Juan had a good series .Actually stole a base for the 1st time in a while , 3 rbi , didn't drop any fly balls and even had a sac fly and almost hit a HR. Thing is if you give Viciedo playing time I'll wager he has more 3 rbi games in half a season than Juan has all year. The offense needs him plain and simple. Who he replaces on any given day is not really the point.

My Viciedo to the outfield posts didn't get any support .

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Jun 28, 2011 -> 11:30 PM) I can't think of a more glaring sign that your manager has lost his team than having to bench a starting OF during a game for loafing, only to then lose said game because the guy you brought in for the loafing outfielder was also loafing. I'm not sure Lilli was loafing. Yea he didn't bust his ass to field that blooper but it's entirely possible he just showed his lack of experience. I doubt he was expecting Tulo to go from 1st to home on it. He probably just figured he's stop at 3rd. Looked like he was playing at no doubles depth so was pretty deep to start with.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 27, 2011 -> 05:32 AM) I'm pretty sure I've seen David Ortiz do it before. It actually kinda makes sense if you can get it down. I don't really care what power hitter has done it before. Do they still put the shift on for Ortiz ? Yes. When there are men on base and you need a big hit did he bunt ? I'm not against trying it a few times when slumping but guys like Thome and Dunn never bunt and asking them to do and having it be some type of magical cure for the problem isn't likely to happen. It's more likely to make us applaud the effort but will probably inspire more amusement then anything else.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Jun 26, 2011 -> 02:45 PM) I always wanted to ask Jim Thome that. Seems apparent to me that guys like Dunn and Thome made their millions being sluggers ,being pull hitters. To all of a sudden start bunting down the 3rd base line is counter intuitive to what made them their money and probably a lot more difficult than doing what is your bread and butter. You don't bat in the middle of the order to be a singles hitter

I realize with Viciedo the Sox have to look at the big picture and keep him as long as they can. That being said baseball is a game you play season to season and if you have a chance to grab the brass ring you go for it. That's what the whole "All In" slogan should mean. The Sox thought they were "All In" signing Dunn and PK and AJ. They were mistaken . Now it is time to admit that mistake and bring up Viciedo. Every win counts and the longer they wait could make the difference in this division . If the Sox finish 2nd or 3rd less than 5 games from 1st the delay in not calling up Viciedo will be greatly magnified in my mind. We have enough pitching but the every day lineup is pitifully weak. Even with Viciedo nothing is guaranteed but I sure would feel better taking a shot with him in the lineup than without. If not bringing him up has nothing to do with keeping him longer then there is no reason whatsoever to keep him down there. Something is wrong, just very very wrong if someone like Kenny can't make a reasonable argument to Ozzie using advanced baseball stats and common sense about how bad Pierre or Dunn has been. DH him, play him in the outfield I don't care but get him the f*** in there every day until he proves he's no better than who he is replacing.

This team has show a lot of balls the last 2 games. I'm encouraged.

Can a team have 3 blown saves in one game ?

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jun 23, 2011 -> 05:35 PM) It's become a world-wide epidemic. And only one moron doesn't seem to get it. Ozzie has to be beyond a shadow of a doubt the worst World Series winning manager in league history. That was very hyperbolic !! You're gone !

Ozzie's steadfast refusal to bench Pierre for extended periods or bat him 9th makes this an easy choice.